Kidnapped, took her phone, girl was saved thanks to a game console

The era of technology 4.0 has brought people a lot of digital conveniences, things like making acquaintances online that never appeared in our parents’ era are now not strange. However, on the Internet everything can be faked, which requires us to be more careful with our online relationships, especially when planning to develop it in real life.
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On July 4, in Tokyo, Japan, a female student went to the Shinjuku neighborhood to meet a 44-year-old man named Hiroyasu Goto whom she met through social media. The two then returned to Got’s apartment in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture. However, this meeting did not end well, at least with the innocent schoolgirl above.

After luring the girl to his apartment, Goto took the girl’s phone and imprisoned her in his own home. It seemed that there was no way to escape, but fortunately on the evening of July 5, the girl discovered the car game console that Goto left the apartment. She quickly connected to the Internet and contacted the Saitama police emergency help desk with an email: “I’m under control and can’t run away.” Thanks to that, the police immediately located the girl, when they arrived they found her tied with metal wire, the other end of the rope tied to the pipe in the apartment.​

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Guy kidnap The girl, Goto, was later arrested, but he still tried to argue that he had done nothing wrong: “There is nothing wrong with imprisoning her”. The police are trying to clarify the process of exchanging and meeting the girl and Goto as well as the cause of this man’s crime.